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Creative Zens Ship with Worms

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the egg-on-your-face dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Engadget reports about 3700 Creative Zen "Neeons" shipped with a virus. The virus in question was the W32.Wullik.B@mm worm. Creative released a statement today to help consumers pinpoint the possibly effected devices."

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  1. Why do I somehow think that.. by postgrep · · Score: 5, Funny

    iPod and Mac zealots are now going to proclaim that "iPods don't get viruses!" ?

  2. Not the first, won't be the last by jarich · · Score: 5, Funny
    Microsoft did this a few years back if memory serves.

    When you run Windows, you must run anti-virus ~all~ the time!

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  3. homophones by ajs318 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Scrawny man in PE kit, about to lift a small weight: "Will this affect me?"

    Muscular man, lifting two larger weight with each hand: "Look at the effect it had on me!"

    From a poster in the Remedial Studies unit at my secondary school.

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  4. In related news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The author of W32.Wullik.B@mm is suing Creative Zen for copyright infringement under the DMCA.

  5. Re:Yay for machine translation... by MadCow42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    >> the quality of the so-called "translation" spat out by Babelfish make me feel a lot better about my long-term job security...


    It don't make me feel so goods about you job security. q:]

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  6. Re:Product Liability by hotdiggitydawg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or add "Do Not Resuscitate" to your patient record. Or replace all instances of "appendectomy" with "gender reassignment surgery". Or... hang on, my tinfoil hat is slipping...